Railway rail



Jan. 13, 1931. 'K V 1,788,435

I RAILWAY RAIL Filed Sept. 1, 1927 .INVENTOR.

Patented Jan. 13, 1931 i TES' Unrrnn s A IRVING ,KULIK, OF'BROOKLYN, NEW YORK RAILWAY RAIL Applioationfiled September 1, 1927. Serial No. 216,957.

This invention relates to railway rails and has for its object to provide a method and means as well as a rail of which the ends may be fusible. I Fig. 1 shows a section of railway rail having on one of its'ends and extending over partly on its lateral sides weltlable material, which is lower in melting point than the remainder of the rail. V i

The opposite end can, of course, also have weldable material and said weldable material can be secured in a number of ways to the rail but is preferably shown as fused to the rail.

F ig. 2 shows two adjoining sections of rail, the weldable material forming the ends of the said rail sections being adjacent each other.

Fig. 8 is a bowed rail alignment temporary 2o maintainer.

By placing the rail section 1 adjacent the rail section 2 as shown in Fig. 2 and temporarily fastening them to one another with the maintainer, Fig. 3, and heating the weldable portions 3 and 4 of the rails, Fig.

2, the two rail sections 1 and 2 become permanently fixed to one another.

The welding can be done byan oxy-acetylene torch or by electricity.

Prior to the welding, a maintainer, Fig.

3, is attachedone each side of the lateral sides of the adjoining rails. Bolts are passed through holes viz., 7 and 8 of the maintainer and which bolts pass through the holes 5,

e5 6 and 9, 10 of the'rails. Nuts are then not too tightly applied to the bolts.

' With the softening of the weldable ends of the adjoining rail sections force is applied upon the maintainers, Fig. 3, in a direction of arrow B. Thus the face 11 by forcing the face 12 brings about a tight joint between the softened weldable ends 3 and 4 of the rail sections.

Fig. 3 is of a substance having the pliability approximately of wrought iron. The

opposite arms of the U like part of Fig. 3.

are grasped by the jaws of a mechanism acting like a pair of pliers. By bringing the jaws together simultaneously with the weld- 5o ing process the force applied to the maintainer, Fig. 3, not only welds more closely ing of metals of differentfusibility integrally thereof andan end of said rail having a lower melting point than that of the adj acent part of the rail section.

' IRVING KULIK. 

